Foot mat



' Aug. 3 1926. 1,594,667

R M. DICK FOOT MAT Filed August 51, 1925 g INVENTOR Flicili- 2 BY J a 3% 6 Z ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 3, 1.926.

UNITED STATES ROBERT M. DICK, OF VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

FOOT MAT.

Application filedcAug'ust 31, 1925. Serial No. 53,691.

This invention relates to a foot heat which is particularly designed to utilize the dis used and rejected inner tubes of pneumatic tires. 7 These tubes are of pure rubber, the quality of which is not sensibly impaired when they are re'ected for their inability to retain air under pressure, and as this rubber cannot be favourably regenerated and is very durable in wear, I propose to cut them into bands about an inch wide and weave these bands on a wire mesh frame to form a mat.

The invention is fully described in the following specification, reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Fig. 1 is a section of the mat showing the weave of the bands on the wire frame, and

Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.

Figure 3 is a cross section of the wire frame. In these drawings 2 and 3 represent the longitudinal, and 4 the transverse Wires of the base frame on which the bands 5, cut from a disused pneumatic tire, are woven.

The wires may be crimped that they will cross one another and retain the spacing at the crossings. g

It will be noted that the wires 2 are in pairs and relatively close together, with a single wire 3 between each pair of wires 2 and spaced apart from them about three times the pitch of two or approximately one inch, and the transverse wires 4 come between each line of bands 5 as threaded on the wires 2, 3.

The bands 5 as cut from a rejected inner tube, are about one inch wide and, as shown in Fig. 1, one end loop of the band is threaded on one of the wires 2 and thereafter passes doubled around the adjacent wire 3 on the same side and over the two wires 2 passes around the wire 3 on the opposite side, and

is looped on the other wire 2 of the pair.

These bands 5 are looped in the manner described on every alternate pair of wires 2 across the width of the frame and are staggered in relation to one another on the alternate rows, so that when finished the mat offers to the tread two thicknesses of the rubber over the single wires 3, and three thicknesses over each pair of double wires 2. It thus forms a comfortable and very efiective mat with plenty of interspace between the wiping pads for the dust and dirt removed as new and desire to be protected in by Le ters Patent, is:

1. A mat consisting of a plurality of parallel longitudinal wires and transverse wires woven through the longitudinal wires, endless rubber bands looped around certain groups of the longitudinal wires and secured to the inner wires of the group, said bands I being arranged in parallel alternate series whereby to form a checker work of rubber band pads and interspaces, said transverse wires extending transversely between the units comprismg the alternate band series.

2. A mat consisting of a plurality of parallel longitudinal Wires andv parallel transverse wires, endless rubber bands looped around certain groups of the longitudinal wires and secured to the inner wires of the group, said bands being arranged in parallel alternate series whereby to form a checker workof rubber band pads and interspaces, said transverse wires extending transversely between the units comprising the alternate band series, said wires being crimped at the points where they cross each other to retain perfect spacing.

3. A mat comprising longitudinal and transverse woven wires, the longitudinal wires being arranged in groups of outer and inner pairs, and endless rubber bands looped around the outer pairs and secured to the inner pairs.

. 4. A mat comprising a plurality of Wires arranged in sets of pairs one set consisting of two adjacent wires and another set consisting of two separated wires, and'endless rubber bands, the adjacent wires extending through the bands and theflban'd being looped around the other wires'of the set and means for maintaining the adjacent and separated relation of the sets of wires. 7

5. A foot niat, tomprising the combination with a frame of crossed longitudinal and transverse Wires, of endless bands of sheet rubber looped around certain of the longitudinal wires and the other longitudinal wires being exposed to provide alternative parallel rows of pads and interspaces, a

transverse wire being woven through the longitudinal wires between each pair of adjacent parallel rows of said pads,

6. A" foot rnat, comprising the combination with a frame. work of crossed longitudil and a s ersew res; Of a se ies of en less bands of sheet rubber, a loop or" one end o feaeh of Whioh is threaded on a longitudinal wire and the doubled band carried around the adjacent longitudinal Wire on the same side and across to and over the longitudinal wire on the other side and around it and threaded on the longitudinal wire adjacent the one to which the other end is looped, the bands being arranged in adjacent rows staggered inrela-tion to one anot e 7. A foot inat, comprising the combination with a wire frame of crossed longitudinaland transverse wires, of a series of alternate rows of rubber pads each pad consisting of an endless band of sheet rubber which ispassed over four longitudinal wires and the loop ends inade fast to the two inner wires or the four, one transverse Wire being positioned between the pads of adjacent Q -S l i t 1. t st-111 0 3 reof Iaffix my g ature.

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